Ahmedabad: The genome sequencing of three people who have been positively tested for Covid-19 on arrival in Gujarat revealed the presence of the Omicron variant.
Gujarat now has 10 confirmed variants.
The senior health department official said that of the three, a 48-year-old man, Indigenous Anand, had returned to the SVP International Airport in Ahmedabad from Dubai.
When he underwent a history of traveling to England, the RT-PRC was carried out on December 15, where he was tested positively.
He is currently in an insulation environment in a civil hospital in Ahmedabad and is stable, the official said.
Another case was a 39-year-old woman from Utran near the letter who had returned from Dubai on December 12.
After testing positively, he was first received in a public ward in a private hospital and then shifted to the isolation ward in the same hospital after the government’s direction.
The third case was a 15-year-old boy who had returned from England to see his sick grandfather in Gandhinagar.
The boy was also accepted at a private hospital in the Gandhinagar district, said the district health official, added that his condition was stable.
Wise patients in the district including three of Jamnagar, each two in Surat and Vadodara, and each in Gandhinagar, Mehsana and Anand.
Three patients in Jamnagar have run out, the country currently has seven active omicron patients.
Dr.
Rakesh Joshi, a medical supervisor of a civilian hospital in Ahmedabad, said that experiences so far throughout the state, omicron patients do not show symptoms and only need basic health monitoring.
“But as a variant is considered contagious, it should not be taken lightly.
Residents must take all the precautions to break the chain,” he said.
The state health department official said that all 10 cases have a history of travel to African or English countries or direct contact with someone with a history.
Thus, screening at the airport tends to be tight, they add.